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I am bumping this because there has been an epidemic of anti-psi rhetoric by the PF admin lately- they are blatantly ignoring peer reviewed research that unambiguously demonstrates psi phenomena and bullying those of us who hold them accountable to their own rules- they deleted my...
these are true but let me fill in number 3 which makes the whole astrology business not so easy to ignore:
3) complex sociological and psychological conditioning factors cause an individual's personality traits and behaviors to converge on some of the general attributes of their astrological...
I have always had a concern with any FTL- not that it isn't possible- rather that whatever Quantum Gravity is it should preserve the Superposition Principle- that elements not causally connected to a physical system [such as outside the light cone] are not resolved into a specific state or...
+1- I thought exactly the same thing ealier when I saw the old knee-jerk "claimant has the burden of proof"- I don't believe in or really know anything about bigfoot- but this was not a claim it was photographic evidence which even if it can be faked is still about the strongest form of physical...
well I suppose it isn't as cut-and-dried as I put it- perhaps locally observably discrete is better? systems are defined by their interactions- it is possible that scale could be an unbounded fractal distribution of interactions in some universes- but this would make any observable space...
it is an easy thing to prove that spacetime must be discrete- if it were continuous then every finite space would contain infinite information- and infinite entropy- and so infinite instability- all particles would immediately diverge in structure to become alien to each other and increasingly...
nope- it would just be a single theory to describe the sum of all emergent causality of this type of world
any real TOE would IMO have to start from the "Monad" and describe how the phase space of universes is generated through it's self-interaction
when one looks at the algorithmic complexity of causal structures like the universe- one sees that complex relationships and states emerge non-deterministically- simple recursive processes form hierarchies of fractal structure- states with unpredictable complexity but yet with very isotropic and...
IMO the MUH is not nearly as important and vital as the CUH- this is a fundamental issue of the ontology of existence- what existence is and what can be
I said in another thread: I am a proponent of something like Max Tegmark's http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646" which states that Reality is...
the smallest unit idea is already firmly established by the concept of quanta and quantum observables- as well by causal set mathematics and computation: a non-discrete system has infinite information and thus infinite entropy and thus infinite instability NO causality- if you observe a causal...
this is an obvious possibility that comes from one of the oldest philosophical ideas in the history of rational thought: Pythagoras' Monad: that the universe and all it's complexity emerges from the self-interaction of one thing- this idea has been given physical power through the discovery of...